Biography
Shona Laing (born 9 October 1955) is a New Zealand musician. She was raised in Eastbourne, a suburb of Lower Hutt, and was a student at Hutt Valley High School when her musical talents first came to public notice. Laing had several folk hits in her native country and in the 1980s became internationally popular for her alternative music, most notably "(Glad I'm) Not a Kennedy" and "Soviet Snow" which was based on the Chernobyl disaster. Various alternative radio stations in the US such as WLIR played songs from her "South" album and she became internationally known. Laing contributed to Manfred Mann's Earth Band album Somewhere in Afrika and contributed music to, and appeared in, the 1985 action film Shaker Run.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Credited work
212 releases · 42 albums · active 1972–2025
- Performance · 326
- Production · 21
- Engineering · 6
- Other credits · 4
Studios: Underhill Studios · Mastersounds · The Workhouse Studios · Mandrill Studios
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Manfred Mann's Earth Band
- Johnny Logan
- Last Man Down
- Andrew Fagan
- Manfred Manns Earthband
- Lea Laven
- Tuulikki Eloranta